{"id":13933,"date":"2014-09-25T11:50:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T15:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=13933"},"modified":"2014-09-25T11:50:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T15:50:33","slug":"sean-kernans-new-book-wont-tell-you-what-to-see-but-it-can-show-you-new-ways-to-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/13933\/sean-kernans-new-book-wont-tell-you-what-to-see-but-it-can-show-you-new-ways-to-look\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Kernan\u2019s new book won\u2019t tell you what to see, but it can show you new ways to look."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Looking<\/a>
\n\u201cYears ago I stumbled on what felt like a secret door into creativity in photography. The secret is that photographers don\u2019t need to hope that creativity will turn up. It\u2019s there in us. Creativity is not something we do, it\u2019s something we are\u2026all the time.\u201d says Kernan.
\n“Sean Kernan<\/a> has spent more than 30 years investigating ways that photographers find and use creativity. And all that insight now fills a workshop-in-a-book, Looking into the Light: Creativity and Photography<\/em><\/a>, now available as an iBook.
\nKernan\u2019s book offers ways to get to that creativity for photographers at every level, bright beginner to jaded professional. It looks past cameras and\u00a0technique to focus on our awareness.\u00a0\u201cWe work on our awareness of all the things that happen\u00a0before the click, which I’m convinced is where the wonder of our\u00a0best seeing comes from.\u201d
\nThe book gives a series of concrete assignments that stimulate the visual imagination and change our pictures. The sign that they\u2019re working is when we get a hit of the excitement we felt the first time we took a photograph that was way beyond anything we thought we could do.
\nThe exercises are gathered from many areas\u2014music, theater, writing\u2014and they\u00a0all involve simple things we already know\u00a0how to do. We can use them to make better photos, or just to see more deeply into what is around us. The goal is to make pictures that talk to the world, not just to other photographers. As Jay Maisel put it, “You want to take more interesting pictures?\u00a0Be a more interesting person!”
\nLooking into the Light\u00a0illustrates the exercises\u00a0with work from a distinguished group that includes John Paul Caponigro, Greg Heisler, Cig Harvey,\u00a0Jay Gould, Dennis Darling, Adam Arkin, poet Gregory Orr, Ed Young, Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Sol LeWitt, William Kentridge, and Sir Joshua Reynolds. There’s an iconoclastic essay on portraits by Duane Michals\u00a0and links to interviews with Duane\u00a0and Robert Frank.
\nTo support reader\u2019s efforts, the author has created a companion website at www.lookingintothelight.com<\/a>, where readers can find further articles, watch instructive videos, and upload and share their own work on the assignments.”
\nRead 20 Questions with Sean Kernan here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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